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Wragge Lawrence Graham - a member of the Autodrive driverless car consortium - is to develop White Paper proposals to facilitate the UK trial of these vehicles, a move that appears more important now that global manufacturers are preparing to test | 11yrs

A new bulletin, The Robotics Law Journal, is being launched to help lawyers open up gigantic commercial markets in drones and other forms of robotics and AI - sectors which are seen as being held back by a lack of regulation and legal expertise. | 11yrs

Apple has revoked Monster's authority to make licensed accessories for its devices, which Monster claims is retribution for the lawsuit it has brought against Apple unit Beats Electronics LLC. | 11yrs

The International Bar Association (IBA) is pushing an app which links into nearby Wi-Fi networks and records date and location - as a way of helping collect more reliable evidence of human rights abuses. | 11yrs

Cooley LLP, the Palo Alto law firm that represents Silicon Valley grandees such as Google, eBay, Facebook, and LinkedIn, has advised music startup Jukely on its launch in the UK. | 11yrs

Despite last week urging US President Barack Obama not to force IT companies to weaken encryption for national security reasons, Microsoft general counsel Brad Smith has suggested that UK proposals along these lines might be accepted by the company. | 11yrs

Stephen Poor may not think his nine tweets are particularly extraordinary but the fact that he tweets at all sets him at odds with his counterparts in the most profitable 15 US law firms. | 11yrs

General counsel and other buyers of legal services are increasingly putting pressure on law firms to outsource, according to the 2014/15 survey on outsourcing from Williams Lea and Sandpiper Partners. | 11yrs

NextLaw Labs, the new Silicon Valley subsidiary of Dentons, is soon to announce an app built with a client which aims to manage risk by using field data collected by staff on their mobiles. | 11yrs

The CEO of Facebook in Israel has urged the Tel Aviv District Court to stop Guy Ophir, a lawyer who has acted for clients alleging bullying by the internet giant, from publishing her home address, private telephone numbers and other details. | 11yrs

The majority of security breach cases are caused by employee negligence (36%) or insider theft (16%), according to an analysis of the matters it advised on in 2014, according to BakerHostetler. | 11yrs

The Canadian Anti-Terrrorism Act, now passing through parliament, could mean that law firms which do not encrypt data will imperil the confidentiality of clients - as the security forces will find it easier to get warrants that breach privacy. | 11yrs

Interviewed five years after the birth of Hogan Lovells, CEO Steve Immelt has given a wide-ranging interview in which he seems confident that firms such as his own will not be threatened by the growing role of artificial intelligence. | 11yrs

Computer specialist Chris Nasrallah claims to have created a self-learning IT system which predicts the result of Supreme Court decisions with a 70% accuracy rate. | 11yrs

Skadden Arps, Jones Day and Baker & McKenzie take the top three places in the BTI Brand Elite league table for 2015, leading the list of firms which are 'strengthening their brand with clients and winning more work'. | 11yrs

Lawyers need to be careful not to lose some of their 'deep human talent' in the coming years as software systems take over many of their traditional tasks - a process which has dulled human expertise in other sectors, according to a leading author. | 11yrs

A team of lawyers and investigators is working to prevent the equivalent of a 9/11 attack on the internet, according to the top cyber security official at the Department of Justice. | 11yrs

Early IT adopters in the US have spoken about the way smartwatches can be used in court to keep up with email in an unintrusive way and the potential for the Samsung virtual reality handset for witness interviews, depositions and hearings. | 11yrs

A group of 20 law firm leaders has unanimously agreed that the ability to provide mobile working and to reduce dependence on office space could drive revenue growth - and that firms who neglect this area could struggle to recruit new talent. | 11yrs